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krispos42 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-24-07 10:36 AM
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Need some advice. I'm being texted unsolicited stock tips
to my cell phone. I got one tip at about 11:30pm last night, and another one about 10am this morning. Now, I work nights, so I don't want my phone buzzind day and night here. I have my phone set so it keeps alerting every two minutes until I look at the message, so the thing will be waking me up out of a sound slumber if I don't stop it.

I'm on the national do-not-call registry and have been so for maybe a year. Does this qualify as a telemarketing call? Can I sic the feds on them? It' coming from a 6-digit number, 265060, so I'm guessing it's a computer doing it.


Some advice is requested.
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truebrit71 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-24-07 10:37 AM
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1. I would say yes,,,
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Squatch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-24-07 10:40 AM
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2. Whatever you do, don't act on that advice.
:scared:
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krispos42 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-24-07 11:00 AM
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8. Oh, don't worry. Like I have money.... :-)
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Orrex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-24-07 10:40 AM
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3. Buy low, sell high
It was my impression that the Do Not Call list applied to ground-lines, though I admit that I formed that impression long before I had a cell.
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krispos42 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-24-07 11:06 AM
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9. The FCC site says it can be a home or mobile phone
The National Do Not Call Registry gives you a choice about whether to receive telemarketing calls at home. Most telemarketers should not call your number once it has been on the registry for 31 days. If they do, you can file a complaint at this Website. You can register your home or mobile phone for free. Your registration will be effective for five years.

https://www.donotcall.gov/default.aspx


I've gotten other solicitiation phone calls before, but they don't leave messages and I think they were telemarketing firms for the Pi Press calling, trying to get me to re-up. I was able to trace one phone number back to a web site of people complaining about the Pi Press (among other companies) using a firm that owned that number, at least.

I'm just not sure if it qualifies as an unsolicited phone call or spam!
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ret5hd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-24-07 10:41 AM
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4. you're probably being charged $.50 - $1.00 apiece for them...
did anyone ask to "borrow" your cellphone for just a minute, have a short conversation, then give your phone back? They might have signed you up for these.
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krispos42 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-24-07 11:08 AM
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10. No, not anybody I didn't trust, and not in the last few months
I signed up for a 'free' ringtone about six months ago, and when they started billing me $9.95 a month T-Mobile removed the charges and blackballed them. Haven't had any problems since.
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Zywiec Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-24-07 10:42 AM
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5. Do you have your phone registered with an IM program?
I get stuff occasionally because my mobile is registered with AOL IM.
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krispos42 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-24-07 11:12 AM
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11. Subject: No, but the 'tip' did have an AOL-IM userid in there
some godawful combination of letters and numbers.

Actually, the two messages I got both had the same stock tip but different AOL-IM userids.

I use Yahoo! IM, but not on my cell phone, and I haven't been on there since December.

It's a mystery
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LanternWaste Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-24-07 12:20 PM
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22. Outta curiosity, could you check and see if it was this number
Edited on Tue Jul-24-07 12:21 PM by LanternWaste
Outta curiosity, could you check and see if it was this number...265006 or 92237? I ask because the precise same thing happened to me at the approximate time it happened to you.

I have a pretty guarded phone number (friends, family and a few trusted, local companies I owe money to), so I was a bit surprised to get this stuff myself, too.


On edit: I'm in north central texas
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krispos42 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-24-07 12:37 PM
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24. 265060, definately. Different AOL-IM but exact same otherwise
I'm in the Twin Cities area, myself
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krispos42 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-25-07 03:02 AM
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25. Update: silence since them.
I texted "Stop" to them yesterday before I headed off for work and got back a message saying that the user wasn't available. But I haven't gotten any text messages since. So I hope it worked!
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0xDEADBEEF Donating Member (71 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-24-07 10:50 AM
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6. What we did in our office
Reply with the single word, "STOP."

Then call your cell provider, and ask them to block all messages from that number.
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krispos42 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-24-07 11:20 AM
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14. Hmmm.... I'm afraid of encouraging them
Showing them the number is active, and all that jazz. But I may have to...
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speedoo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-24-07 12:11 PM
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17. Well, I called T-Mobile.
They advised me to tell them to "stop sending", so I did. Also gave me the "do not call" phone number, which I will call later today.

T-Mobile says they can't block the number from texting me, but they can change my phone number if necessary. Last thing I want to do.
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krispos42 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-24-07 12:16 PM
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19. I sent "Stop", got back "This user is unavailable" :-( n/t
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ComerPerro Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-24-07 12:19 PM
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20. at this point, if they text this often, don't worry about "encouraging them"
they are already texting you daily, they either know its active or don't care whether it is or not.
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speedoo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-24-07 10:52 AM
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7. They texted me at 1:20 am. Also 265060.
I just got one and I have a 203 area code phone number. They were using AOL IM. I will have to check my AOL accounts to see if they are spamming me there.
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krispos42 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-24-07 11:14 AM
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12. So they're reaching out to Connecticut, eh?
Hmmm... so it's probably NOT from a list of former subscribers to the St. Paul Pioneer Press... :-)
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gilpo Donating Member (601 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-24-07 11:17 AM
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13. Hi Krispos, It might be a Twin Cities thing. I have been getting them, too
I think I am going to call ATT and have them block the number
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krispos42 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-24-07 11:23 AM
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15. I tried telling the Do-Not-Call list, but the form needs 10 digits :-(
Oh, well.
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gilpo Donating Member (601 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-24-07 11:34 AM
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16. AT&T was useless.
they can only block all incomming messages, not from a particular number. I'm going to contact the company FDKE=Frederick's Entertainment next
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Merlot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-24-07 12:16 PM
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18. I got the same message this morning around 8 am
First time. I'm in California.

I'm going to call T-Mobile and see if there is any way to turn off the text feature.
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Mandate My Ass Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-24-07 12:19 PM
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21. My son got one of those yesterday on his T-Mobile cell phone
He showed it to me. Weird. He's also on the do-not-call registry. :shrug:
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WilliamPitt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-24-07 12:20 PM
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23. "I'm a cop."
click
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